I have an old Siemens c35 mobile on an o2 pay and go account. I want to send E-mails to my mobile and vice versa.. The mobile is only sms and WAP enabled.

I have succesfully sent an e-mail from my hotmail.com account to the phone after enabling my phone's 02 account. The e-mail went via 02's own sms gateway at mmail.co.uk. However, it won't do the return leg. Simply replying to the text using the phone does nothing i.e. the e-mail does not appear in my either o2 e-mail account or the hotmail account. I think this is because the incoming e-mail only bears the o2 texting number (21203).

Anybody know Microsoft's sms text number for either windows live mail/messenger or hotmail.com ? Its probably an 888XX series number.

Info on the web says that 88804 should get you access to my hotmail account E-mails, but it does not on my phone (Restricted service on P& G ? ) All I can do is make enquiry by return text on the hotmail calendar and contacts list.

Other than use a third party server to get this facility, is there any way either the phone, o2 or hotmail accounts can be tweeked to get sms from mobile to e-mail ?

Nick

Edited 28 December, 200916 yr by Clunkclick

You cant reply to emails sent via SMS in this way. You need to specify the recipient everytime in the form of an email. Remember as well this will be charged at MMS rates, and IIRC you'll be charged for receiving the message on your handset too.

Can you not set an inbox to sync your mail like you can with most phones? I can sync my emails via WAP/GPRS/3G on the go, and see them just like a text message.

You cant reply to emails sent via SMS in this way. You need to specify the recipient everytime in the form of an email. Remember as well this will be charged at MMS rates, and IIRC you'll be charged for receiving the message on your handset too.

Can you not set an inbox to sync your mail like you can with most phones? I can sync my emails via WAP/GPRS/3G on the go, and see them just like a text message.

Difficulties lie in the fact that I use an HTML mail service (Hotmail) and that, unlike Outlook, this does not have the facility to or the need to sync, as being web-based the assumption is that it can be read from any web-equipped device.. Further, whilst the phone has WAP and technically I may be able to access a special version of the Hotmail web-site using it, I prefer not to use WAP as it is very slow (takes over a minute and a fortune in charges just to get the home page up) and has a v. small mono-screen (2CM by 3.5CM).

Additionally, the phone I'm using is 8 years old, not MMS capable and is running on one of the original o2 Pay as you go contracts i.e. straight charging, no free anything, not that I want free anything cause, at the moment usuage is no more than £25 a year in charges and i'd like to keep it that way.

Microsoft used to provide a service through Windows Live Mail/Hotmail whereby you could read your web-based E-Mail inbox thru a mobile. Microsoft still allow you to set-up this service. However, when you go to use it, the web-site tells you that Microsoft have discontinued the issue/purchase message credits necessary to make it work on a Pay as you go system - typical MS.

I wish to retain the HTML mail service as it is free and retain the existing phone, as I am sure that if I upgraded I'd be paying more for the mobile - prefer O2 because of the coverage.

The only other facility I have is to send text messages to a text facility within my mobile account on the O2 web site. These can be read on the web simply by signing-on to the account. However, there doesn't appear to be any facility to convert and relay messages on to my E-mail address at Hotmail and my preference would be to keep things simple and pick-up all incoming from the same site i.e. hotmail.

One alternative that is available is to sign-up with a third party sms to E-mail provider, but these usually charge.

I'm wondering whether the Alert system could be high-jacked fopr my purposes. It's obviously against the ethos of the design i.e. broadcast as oppossed to station-to-station, but coud a mobile send an alert ?

Nick

Edited 30 December, 200916 yr by Clunkclick

Wow a C35. I had to check the date to make sure this post wasn't from 2002....

Personally, just buy a newer phone that has GPRS and or 3G. Visit an o2 store and you'll be able to upgrade, keeping your same number, remaining credit and they'll knock a bit of the price as your an existing customer. £50 tops will get you something much, much more usable.

Talk21 used to text you your emails, if you enabled the option, but this has been gone for a very long time.

All the best through Nick.

Old skool

Nick, you're really going to struggle to do what you want within your limits.

If I were you I either think of a better phone and tariff combo, or ditch the idea of getting your email on the move.